Gardaí suspect the leaders of a terrorist alliance are behind a gun attack on a dissident as he dropped a child off at a creche in north Dublin. Parents looked on as a gunman shot Declan Smith in the head during rush hour on Holywell Avenue in Donaghmede.

A man is fighting for his life in hospital after he was shot in the face outside a creche in the Donaghmede area of Dublin.

A man in his 30s is fighting for his life after being shot.

A man in his early 30s has been shot outside a Dublin creche.